Archive for date: October 13, 2005

NASA has released a series of Earth images entitled Blue Marble Next Generation, which includes maps of the entire earth rendered without clouds in each f the 12 months of the year and resolutions of 2km per pixel. Very nice.

I’m currently reading ::amazon(“0670033847”, “The Singularity Is Near”):: by Ray Kurzweil, and it’s kind of an over-the-top utopian view about the future. His basic hypothesis is fairly radical: that the accelerating innovation in the world will result in a vast leap in human evolution in the 21st century. I don’t know that I buy the […]

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I'm Mark VandeWettering, husband, proud father of a U.S. Airman, grand dad of two beautiful grand daughters, technical director at Pixar Animation Studios, telescope maker, computer science and math afficianado, an Extra class radio amateur licensed as K6HX, and all around geek. I hope you enjoy my website.